Shoulder pad



Feb. 13, 1951 CHNQUPEK ET AL 2,541,204

SHOULDER PAD Filed July 26, 1947 K/QZ.

INVENTORS: JI NDRI CH CHNOUPEKAND gUZENA CHNOUPKOVA Paten ted Feb. 13, 1951 OFFICE SHOULDER PAD J indrich Chnoupek and Ruaena Chnoupkova, Prague, Czechoslovakia Application July 26, 1947, Serial N 0. 763,974 In Czechoslovakia February 13, 1946 Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires February 13, 1966 8 Claims. (01. 2-268) The present invention relates to inserts used for fashioning of shoulders of coats, mantles and similar apparel.

The inserts generally used hitherto have an inherent disadvantage, namely, that they very soon wilted when using the apparel upon which they were attached, shifted from their original positions and lost their original shape and thus they virtually became useless, as they might even spoil the style of the apparel involved.

It is the main object of the invention to provide an insert capable of perfectly maintaining its shape and having no tendency to shift from its position.

The material used for the present insert is preferably a more or less coarse textile fabric and wadding or a similar soft material.

An example of a practical form of an insert made according to the invention is presented in the accompanying drawing where Fig. 1 is a sectional view of an insert embodying the invention, and Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same.

The insert consists of two pieces I and I of organdy or other more or less porous fabric of triangular shape. Preferably, the fabric is provided with a stiffening finish, such as a sizing. Between the mentioned two pieces is disposed a piece 3 of wadding or some similar soft material of suitable shape, which is laid upon the lower piece I of the porous fabric and in the place adjoining the shoulder seam of the apparel bent back under the upper piece I of the fabric, so that it forms a pad that extends over the border of the upper piece I of the fabric.

The mentioned lower piece I of the fabric may reach either up to the point where the wadding is intended to be bent upwards, as shown on the drawing, or it may have a form which recedes in a manner similar to that of the upper piece, leaving the pad entirely free. The first arrangement is preferable, however, as it serves better to retain the form of the shoulder parts.

The whole is substantially held together by stitches 2, and particularly by cross stitches as shown in Fig. 2. These stitches are effective to preserve the required shape of the insert for a practically unlimited period. By turning over the wadding and by leaving part of it outside the fabric, an insert with a pad is produced, that imparts a natural inconspicuous form to the shoulder parts and displays a high resistance to shifting of the insert and retains the latter in appropriate position against the shoulders.

Manifestly, variations may be resorted to and as parts and features may be modified or used without others within the scope of the appended claims.

Havin now fully described our invention, we claim:

1. A shoulder pad comprising two superimposed layers of fabric having two corresponding end edges substantially parallel; and a layer of padding material which extends co-extensively between the two layers of fabric and is bent over or doubled back upon itself adjacent the two corresponding end edges of said two layers of fabric, the doubled back portion of said padding material being partly coextensive with said two layers of fabric and the fold of the bent over portion adjacent said two corresponding edges of the latter two layers extending into exposed position exteriorly beyond said end edges of said two layers of fabric, the latter and the padding material and the doubled back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit.

2. A shoulder pad comprising two superimposed layers of fabric havin two corresponding end edges substantially parallel; and a layer of padding material which extends coextensively between the two layers of fabric and is bent over or doubled back upon itself adjacent the two corresponding end edges of said two layers of fabric, the doubled back portion of said padding material being partly coextensive with said two layers of fabric and extending a predetermined distance between the latter in a position to expose the fold of said bent over or doubled back portion between the two corresponding end edges thereof, said two layers of fabric, and the padding material and the doubled back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit.

3. A shoulder pad comprising two superimposed layers of fabric having two corresponding end edges substantially parallel; and a layer of padding material which extends coextensively between the two layers of fabric and is bent over or doubled back upon itself adjacent the two corresponding end edges of said two layers of fabric, the doubled back portion of said padding material being partly coextensive with said two layers of fabric and extending a predetermined limited distance exteriorly of at least one of said two layers of fabric, the latter and the padding material and the doubled back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit.

4. A substantially triangular shoulder pad comprising two roughly triangular superimposed layers of fabric having at least two correspondtion partly coextensive with said two layers of fabric, and the latter and the padding material and the doubled back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit.

5. A substantially triangular shoulder pad comprising two roughly triangular superi'mposed layers of fabric having at least two eorrespenuing edges thereof concavely curved to-form-two corresponding upper end edges; and a layer'ofpadding material having a roughly triangular portion which is disposed coextensively between the two triangular layers of fabric, the padding material-being extended and: bent 1 over or doublediback on itself adjacent to=said upper end edges with the bent over or doubled backip or tionrev'erting between said two layers of 'fabric, and the latter and the padding material and th'e doubled-back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit. 7

6: -A-substantially'triangular shoulderpad cdm= prisingtwo roughly triangular superimposedlayersof fabric' havi'ng 'at"least two corresponding edges thereof concavely curved tofor'm two corresponding upp'erend edges; and a-layer' of padding material having a roughly triangular 7 pertionwliichis disposed coextensively between the two"t'riangular layers of fabric, thepadding materi'al being extended and bent over or doubled back on 'i'tselfadjacent 'tosaid upper end edges the 'bent "over or doubled back portion revertir'ig betweensaid two layers of fabric and thefoldof sa'id doubledback portion extending into exposed position beyond said two corresponding end edges ofsaid two layers off-abric, aii'd the latter and the padding material and the doubled-'backportion thereof being stitched-togthr to'fori'n aunit.

'7. A substantially triangular shoulder pad comprising two roughly triangular superimposed lay ers of fabric having at least two corresponding edges thereof concavely curved to form two corresponding upperend edges; anda layerof paddingf nfaterial ha'jting a roughly triangular portion which is disposed coextensively between the two triangular layers of fabric, the padding material being extended and bent over or doubled taek en itself adjacent to said upper end edges with the bent over or doubled back portion ex- "t'ridfi g 'a predetermined limited distance exteriorlyof at least one of said two layers of fabri-efland 'tne latter, and the padding material and the doubled back portion thereof being stitched together to form a unit. 7

-8; sdbstantially triangular shoulder pad comprising two roughly triangular superimposed layersbf-fabric having at least two corresponding edges thereof concavely curved to form two corresponding iipper end edges; and a layer cessadin'gniaterial having a roughly triangular-1pm tion which is disposed coextensivelybetween th'e two triangular layers of fabric havihg ai -stiffhing-=finish, the padding material beirig extended and-bent "over" or' doubled back oh itself "adja c'ent to "said upper end'e'dges with the bent over or doubled-back portion partly coeiitensive with said two layers 'offabric; and the latter and the padding material and =the-dodbl'ed back" portion thereof being stitchedtogether to for #1111117.

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